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News
Metadata Conference in Vienna: Metadata Quality Redux
I was delighted to be invited to speak at the Perspectives on Metadata: Digital Edition & Preservation conference at the University of Vienna on 12-13 November 2009. I'll be on straight after Tore Hoel's talk on the ISO MLR (Metadata for Learning Resources) work.
My talk is called If You Tag it, Will They Come? Metadata Quality and Repository Management, and the abstract may be found here.
SHEEN Sharing Project Extended
Much to the delight of myself and Cherie Woolmer at Strathclyde University (the Project Lead on this one), the SHEEN Steering Group have given the go-ahead to a project extension. We were originally funded to the end of September 2009, but we've really just reached a point where our community of practice might really be ready to achieve lift off. We're now funded to the end of February 2010, whence we will be putting on a dissemination event. So watch this space!
Mimas Learning & Teaching Stories Project Funded
I've been working since June 2009 on a project with Mimas at the University of Manchester. Mimas runs a number of data services for UK higher and further education, which are mainly used in research. Jackie Carter at Mimas is keen to develop the use of these services in learning and teaching at undergraduate and taught post-grad level. So, she's brought me on board to go around the country speaking with lecturers who use certain services in this way.
I've been gathering a great deal of interview and other data around the following services:
The outcome of this will be some stories on the newly re-launched Mimas website about how some elcturers are using these services in their teaching, with multimedia, ideas and so on.
I'll also be reporting back to Mimas about how the folk interviewed would like to see these services taken forward, the better to embed them in learning and teaching.
SCONUL Conference and AGM 2009
I delivered two workshops on learning object repositories at the SCONUL Conference and AGM 2009 in June. This conference is for the heads of UK higher education libraries, so it was a good opportunity to talk about business cases and business models, resourcing implications, and affordances of Web 2.0 and social media for managing learning materials. All things I've been working on lately, so the timing was great.
For more on the conference see here.
My slides for the workshops are on the conference website in PowerPoint here, and available for viewing, download and slidecasting on Slideshare here.
Intrallect Conference 2009
I presented an introduction to the SWORD deposit specification and co-facilitated a workshop on Open Educational Resources at the annual Intrallect user conference: Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse.
Intrallect will be making all the presentations from the conference available soon. My slides are here and here.
Check out Nick Sheppard's blog post on the conference here.
SQA Metadata Application Profile Guidelines & Review Completed
I finished work on this project on time in March 2009, with help from Lorna Campbell, Phil Barker and others at JISC CETIS, for the Scottish Qualifications Authority. Final outputs were a review of SQA's existing IEEE LOM application profile, and guidelines for developing application profiles, developing workflows for metadata creation, and resourcing metadata and repository management within a large organisation. These outputs are not publicly available, although JISC CETIS and I may make a non-SQA-specific version available at a later date.
Mhairi McAlpine at SQA wrote me a nice recommendation on LinkedIn after I finished this one - a good result for my first completed independent consultancy project.
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